People aren't buying cars? No, the market has shifted so that less people are buying cars and more are buying SUVs but Tesla still sells more S's than X's and the model 3 is selling strong. Ford stopped production of most cars, Now GM. It's poorly thought out. Obviously some people are still buying cars. Telsa has ate into the market and low gas prices have given these clueless executives the illusion that it's time to stop selling cars but it was a mistake for GM. The Cruze sells well, they are stopping in anticipation of reduction in sales. Spike in gas prices or when Ford shuttles lines would have given plenty for GM to sell.
Telsa sold 200k vehicles in the US at the start of quarter 3. IDK where you got they produced 170k at end of 3rd quarter. Not that it matters when you're talking about 17M. The fact that you'd bring this up proves my assumption and point that you don't understand the situation. I never claimed Tesla was selling some huge amount of cars or that globally EV's were a huge portion. What I said was 1% is half way there in an exponential curve. The human mind thinks linearly so it's not an intuitive function to understand what I said. But we've already hit the half way mark (as a function of time) for EV adoption.
The banning of petrol sales is supported by my intelligence which runs counter to what the average person would see. Watch some Ray Kurzweil videos to understand better. People don't know that we're half way to powering the world by solar, they didn't see the iphone coming, hardly anyone saw Tesla coming, businesses thought the internet was a fad. People can't see the future of exponential growth adoptions so the 'facts' you speak of are presented by people who think they have good evidence but they are just wrong.
This post sums up my point. For whatever reason, most people lack the ability to predict or see the future. It's very strange (to me) but it's how nearly everyone thinks.
